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Residents get six votes each in surbuban NY election
Associated Press ^ | June 16, 2010 | Jim Fitzgerald

Posted on 06/16/2010 6:03:02 AM PDT by animal172

PORT CHESTER, N.Y. – Arthur Furano voted early — five days before Election Day. And he voted often, flipping the lever six times for his favorite candidate. Furano cast multiple votes on the instructions of a federal judge and the U.S. Department of Justice as part of a new election system crafted to help boost Hispanic representation.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: New York
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To: bravedog
Vote coordinator Martha Lopez said that if turnout is higher than in recent years, when it hovered around 25 percent, the election would be a success — regardless of whether a Hispanic was elected.

Apparently the minorities could have elected the whole board if they had bothered to vote before. This is just a way for the judge to encourage the lazy ignorant people who who didn't show up to vote in past elections. Thanks Judge!

21 posted on 06/16/2010 6:35:53 AM PDT by BigBobber
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To: devere

NO, everyone does not get 6 votes. Only Hispanic residents get 6 votes. White and all others get only 1 vote.

I should have posted an explanation following the title of the article.


22 posted on 06/16/2010 6:40:19 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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To: BigBobber

Who is this demented judge????? Isn’t anyone able to take this decision to court (a higher court)? This is insanity. LIBs are INSANE.


23 posted on 06/16/2010 6:41:02 AM PDT by hal ogen ($10 (I think) amounts through the internet from all over the world.)
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To: Texas Fossil

“NO, everyone does not get 6 votes. Only Hispanic residents get 6 votes. White and all others get only 1 vote.”

That’s not in the article, and I very much doubt it is true.


24 posted on 06/16/2010 6:47:22 AM PDT by devere
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To: animal172

This is not fair. Furano should have one vote. Now if they really wanted to fix the problem, the other alternative is to give the conservative white voters only a 1/6 of a vote. One vote for the Hispanics, 1/6 of a vote for the whites. There.


25 posted on 06/16/2010 6:49:43 AM PDT by discipler (How's that 'hope and change' working for 'ya? - RL)
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To: animal172

The bigger issue is how, with the stroke of a pen, the judge gets to change voting laws. Can you imagine if this starts to happen all over?


26 posted on 06/16/2010 7:05:55 AM PDT by raybbr (Someone who invades another country is NOT an immigrant - illegal or otherwise.)
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To: animal172

It seems that everyone gets six votes, just like they did in the past, since there are six seats to fill at large.

The only difference is that now each voter can cast all six of their votes for a single candidate if they want to.

It’s nothing to get alarmed about.


27 posted on 06/16/2010 7:12:32 AM PDT by devere
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To: Texas Fossil
NO, everyone does not get 6 votes. Only Hispanic residents get 6 votes. White and all others get only 1 vote.

Tell that to Gregg Gregory in the article, unless he is a crypto-Hispanic. He claims he gave all six of his votes to one candidate.

There are many ways to handle multiple seats in a city.

1. Wards or districts - each voter votes for one and only one seat. This is how the US House of Representatives is handled.
2. Seats representing the whole city, but each seat is a separate vote. An example is the US Senate - you vote for two Senators but their seats are staggered by time. In Ohio, many of the elected judges are done this way with a January 2nd seat, a January 3rd seat etc. so their is no confusion about which seat is which but they all have about the same term.
3. At-large with only one vote per candidate. Many city councils are voted on this way. Pick six from a list of twenty, and the top six vote getters are put on the council.
4. This method of cumulative voting. You have six votes for six seats, but can use multiple votes on a single candidate if you really want him to win (or just hate everyone else).

The judge picked this method (I hate legislating from the bench) to get more Hispanics by allowing the Hispanics to concentrate their votes on a few candidates, but they don't get more votes.

28 posted on 06/16/2010 7:19:15 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I am so immune to satire that I ate three Irish children after reading Swift's "A Modest Proposal")
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To: animal172
Robinson, Stephen C.
Born 1957 in Brooklyn, NY

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U. S. District Court, Southern District of New York
Nominated by George W. Bush on March 5, 2003, to a seat vacated by John S. Martin, Jr.; Confirmed by the Senate on September 17, 2003, and received commission on September 22, 2003.

Education:
Cornell University, B.A., 1979
Cornell Law School, J.D., 1984

Professional Career:
Private practice, New York, NY, 1984-1987
Assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of New York, 1987-1991
Managing director & associate general counsel, Kroll Associates, 1991-1993
Principal deputy general counsel & special assistant to the director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1993-1995
Counsel & chief compliance officer, Aetna U.S. Healthcare, Middletown, Connecticut, 1995-1998
U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, 1998-2001
Interim manager, Empower New Haven, Inc., Connecticut, 2002-2003

Race or Ethnicity: African American

Gender: Male

29 posted on 06/16/2010 7:30:20 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: devere; Texas Fossil
devere is correct here.

There are six seats open, so normally, you get to cast six votes. The difference with this method is that, while normally you can only vote for a single candidate once, now you can concentrate all six of your votes on one candidate. The article says nothing about only hispanics getting six votes, and in the extremely unlikely case that that was the judge's intent, it would be ruled unconstitutional by an appeals court faster than the ink dried.

I don't agree with it. Modifying voting techniques based on some misguided notion of social justice is stupid, but as I mentioned before, the voting technique itself is not unprecedented. Reading the comments here, some people have a tendency to be WAY too reactionary.

30 posted on 06/16/2010 7:53:29 AM PDT by billakay
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To: animal172

Ethnic Cleansing block by block.


31 posted on 06/16/2010 7:57:43 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: The Toll

The only way for this to be fair would the be to grant each elected official on the council 6 votes on every issue that comes before them.


32 posted on 06/16/2010 8:07:45 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: animal172

One man one vote is the only way. One man 6 votes is CRIMINAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!


33 posted on 06/16/2010 8:16:57 AM PDT by Pilated
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To: CT-Freeper
I understand that the search function on this site is really poor, but seriously - this article was posted three of four times already.

Yeah, each time with a differently spelled or worded title. Most of us don't have the time to research a previous post that extensively. And most of us don't care. This is the first I've read it and I thank the poster.

34 posted on 06/16/2010 8:25:20 AM PDT by BfloGuy (It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
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To: animal172

The votes are supposed to reflect the wishes of the community, not just one nationality or minority.

I’m of English descent, and I want six votes because I am a minority.


35 posted on 06/16/2010 8:42:42 AM PDT by kitkat (OBAMA hates us. Well, maybe a LOT of Kenyans do.)
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To: animal172
crafted to help boost Hispanic representation.

What insanity....

36 posted on 06/16/2010 8:45:45 AM PDT by dragnet2
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To: swain_forkbeard

It doesn’t change the idea of one man one vote; every person now gets 6 votes to do with what they want. The only thing I would add is that with a voting population or 50 per cent whites and 50 per cent hispanics, it seems to me that a lot of hispanics were voting for white candidates as well...especially if the board members were being elected in an “at large fashion”.


37 posted on 06/16/2010 9:15:16 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (Mike Mathis is my name,opinions are my own,subject to flaming when deserved!)
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To: billakay

OK, now I understand. I got the wrong impression.

It appears the article is poorly written, leading to my and other’s confusion.

Sorry for not fully understanding this to begin with.


38 posted on 06/16/2010 11:06:27 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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To: devere

I stand corrected, you are right.


39 posted on 06/16/2010 11:07:35 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
Furano cast multiple votes on the instructions of a federal judge and the U.S. Department of Justice as part of a new election system crafted to help boost Hispanic representation.

40 posted on 06/16/2010 3:45:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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